Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-26

deed, the best authority, for stating that
"the publicans have fought the bsttle
on national issues in this state.n Aud
when we call 70 mind the numerous
speeches made by Senators Egsrts, His
cock and ex SenStur Warner Miller in
this state we may well conclude thet these
leaders of high tariff taxation stated the
issue upon that great national question,
and the result has been n victory of over
IL, 900 msi )rity in favor of tariff reform
But VINO, after all, rolled up this great
ma )rity? Surely the boss mOnopolists
in tnis state who accumulate fortunes
every year from this outrageous tax sys
tenn are only comps -a:ively handful l.
was the oppressed farmer population and
the great working classes that rose in
their might to protest against the insolent
demands Of tx Senator Warner Miller,
the earnest but vulnerable appeals OF SEN
Gtor Ascock, and the good natured Jokes
of Senator EvaIts. II is the hare work
log farmers who live in anxiety TO make
the two ends meet during the year, and
the multitude Of hard working men, who
at last begin to understand that they
are Numerically taxed, not because
there IS a foreign army invading
the couatry, nor indeed for the
purpose Of paying off an oppressive debt,
bat simply to enrich millionsires and
monopoly corporations. There is no
withstanding such en- sppeal. In about
three weeks Congress will meet. We
shall then hear from the President ard
the Secretary Of the Treasury on this
gseat subject. As tariff ref Imer and
ii concert with millions OF my fellow-cis-
liens who ardently hate and abhor the
present tariff system, we are cOntented
to ABIDE by the advice Of the Executive
and the Secretary Ct the Treasury on this
question. AhI It would indeed be to the
welfare Of all industries to listen 10
sound reason and quick action while
there is still time to adjust this great na-
tional tax oppression in such moderate
and gradual way which ali reasonable
tariff reformers are most DESTROYS to
grant.
Nc tariff reformer wants absolute free
trade. All accusations to the contrary
are miserable inventions and lies, only
used to serve purpose. But we do
want outrageous high duties on neces-
saries reduced. The farmer in this state
who has bought, or will buy, thirty yards
of wooden mixed dress goods for his wife
and daughters, anc, (which costs abroad
81 cents square yard. has either paid, or
will pay 81 40 tax OMIT. Is this fail? Is
it lust? AuuVe all, is NO len mixed
dress goods that costs 81 cents square
yard abroad luxury or is it 8 necessity?
Gu every spool of thread the farmer buys
when there are 200 yards on il, which
costs abroad % cents, he has to pay 81
cen's duty or, rather, tax to the home
manufacturers. On common printed COT
ton muslin, which costs abroad trifl9
less than cents square yard, the farm
er's household has to pay tex OF &c So
per cent, or 81 Ge It's. Ga a heavy
common WOODEN shawl which costs abroad
GU cents a pound, the farmers wife has
to pay tax of 81 per cent, which simply
means this: II the shawl weighs two
pounds, and costs abroad 81 So, the tax
on it is 81 II. l might go ON enumeratipg
these shameful taxes AID fill every page
of the Times; indeed, have already, as
my readers know, gwen numerous illus
trations of the kind on the great tariff
swindle. The time has now come wh=1
these great taxes should be reduced do
not advocate the sweeping Of them away
entirely al at once. l have said 80 hun
dreds of TINS. But do advocate q re-
duction Of these heavy burdens.
Now, in conclusion, l wish to say
good word, and it may be wise word, to
the Sun. That journal has all at once be-
come wonderfully sffectionete, not only
to the Democratic psrtv, but even to the
administration. Happily both the party
and the administration are now so strong
that this slmost unnatural sff .ction is not
very dangerous. But it would indeed be
wise for that efficient journal to remem-'
Der of en- aud long its own ssgaciou5 DIS
covery, namely, "That the republicans
have fought the battle on national issues"
in this STATE. Aud as the battle was lost
it would be as well not to foment dissen-
sions in the Democratic party and try to
thwart tariff reform by trying to abolish
the tax on whisky and beer. The Demo-
cratic party has made uD it's mind to give
the people, not free whisky and free beer,
but cheaper clothing and cheaper neces-
saries of life.